it's ten pm moscow time on your screen now you sing live pictures from cairo opposition demonstrators apparently breached barricades near the presidential palace there ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution we've got the latest live from cairo just ahead also coming up on the program two stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations who cream off profits instead paying a fair share. reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a more than army base in a deadly assault while fears that the country's chemical weapons could fall into militant hands damascus says it's being framed by the west which is trying to create a perceived threat as

a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. followed a very good evening it's kevin over here at the t.v. center tonight in moscow and we're focusing on egypt first there are thousands of pro and anti morsi demonstrators have gathered in cairo tonight ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution protesters opposed to the president to breach the barricades of the presidential palace amid fears that the proposed draft would lead the country towards an islamic dictatorship let's catch up with journalist bill true she's the. evening to you the majority of judges across egypt announced just a few hours ago didn't know that they weren't preside over sunday's referendum what's more silly thing to do now. absolutely the general assembly of the judges club and now it's the few hours ago that they of course would cause this referendum on the constitution leading men. it's

a question how in fact the polling stations will be run in the past people have mentioned that the professors will step in perhaps the military was actually this news was actually met with jubilation by protesters here behind me a presidential palace he said that said this was a good step from the judiciary showing support of the opposition really at the moment the biggest question is how these will go ahead how the referendum will be how you in fact will actually man the polling stations and of course the big news broke yesterday the military give the green light to detain citizens isn't it further provoke any violence. at the moment we have beefed up security here at the presidential palace the republican guard themselves have turned up again with several tanks and lined up against the walls hundreds of them monitoring the situation the military have of course as you said been given the rights to arrests in which was met with much dismantling the protesters who said that it may be facing martial law reuters reported in fact that the defense

minister of the i.c.c. has called for a national dialogue tomorrow which has led many to question the position of the military whether they are in fact backing the president or they are in fact still in the presence of the protestors site is yet to be seen really how they will react if there is even more civil unrest on the streets but we expect them to see perhaps then to bring more tanks to the streets if there is continued violence in the first on the could the question of the allegiance of the military has been been brought up as a bell now if if the referendum does go ahead on saturday what is the likely outcome of the vote you think. this is the million dollar question that people want answered at the moment what will the outcome of this referendum be according to protesters here they believe that there will be no as there's been such a significant presence on the streets in the last few weeks and in addition we've had obviously the judge is quoted as saying that they are in fact boycotting of course running the referendum the approve morsy supporters how i. all very strong

there in the thousands of the moment they gathered just a few kilometers away from the presidential palace seeing scenes of like ten thousand people in support the president we shouldn't be ignored so really the question is which side will win is neither side will back down the approaches really briefly if you show to the world we're showing live pictures from from what's the feeling on the street could there be trouble tonight why are you getting . i think there may well be trouble tonight that's definitely what people have been saying because we have these private protest groups which are just within a few kilometers away from each other here we have the pro this or the anti morsy supporters just behind me who have erected their own barricades within the barricades put up by the president of the republican guards in addition to a tens of thousands just down the roads that have such polarized opinions that when they do meet this often leads to quite a lot of violence on wednesday we saw at least eight people die as these rival

protests greets me to definitely we are expecting perhaps some violence this evening or yourself will become. even those kickoff the things of so much true at the presidential palace. journalist khaled spoke to me believes that morsi his draft is putting the nation on the brink of civil war. judges and the judiciary system is concerned this. is existing. in egypt and that's why he retreated and he's the queen because he knew the. court cannot actually make any judgment. he insisted on the. situation after that actually has not been discussed. by the people of egypt is to. have to actually a country in a. similar war will probably.

be speed for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is a joke that. point we don't even know will be put in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which would make it illegal if it happens with full judiciary supervision is not going to. be small and if he's insisting on. going to be a free. people there. are people of egypt feel. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead in britain with bumper taxes and welfare cuts but not everyone is feeling the pinch profit sharing multinationals like amazon and starbucks are managing to exploit tax laws to the fullest the public wants payback

and as sarah first reports next they're telling the government is not doing. so i. welcome people from all of the people tend not to pull ups of scandals because companies next apple or google or the mom. and it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance the legal but morally suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people argue to discuss these companies do not a very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy

as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute we're here at one of amundsen's much of this to be sentences based in the u.k. but the reality is that many of our customers their employees and many will distribution centers like this what are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out to saddam illegally on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal.

surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending it in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare he weighed in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on bennett before clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but now that people know that him or see or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not pay and there's a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimately. and

those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen we all know you are still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interact tax avoid is ok to legally starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok is that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah firth r.t. london let's go next perhaps you should we talk to our members he's from a dutch based firm specializing in tax avoidance of the term right helping clients use legal loopholes. and setting up companies in tax havens get even to serve but

you're popular with some people everybody wants to pay as little tax as possible as one of those things we've all got to pay it we're talking about the e.u. losing around a trillion euros a year from tax avoidance and evasion how do you justify this journey of crisis when people are seeing what little cash they have got already being taken away in austerity. i believe every individual has a right to keep the fruits of his own labor every individual who produces so thing is entitle to what he's produced. so it's a fundamental human right. but you know if you don't pay your taxes you don't get a lot of things done you expect to live in a country where you got free health care if it goes on or on you surely have to pay taxes don't you well there is no such thing as a free lunch so there isn't really free we pay through the nose through tax system

taxation is actually a very inefficient way to get services it's much more efficient over done by the market. in a free market when there is competition between companies prices go down and quality goes up. but when when you allow government to take a huge chunk of the nation's income through taxation the result is not just that it's detrimental to the individual rights but also there. are things that government does that actually don't very very poorly i know they're going to a lot of people watching tonight jumping up and out of what you're saying here throwing things nodo the t.v. screen anyway why do you think governments keep bringing up the problem of tax avoidance and then at the same time fail to do anything concrete to change it. well that's because fortunately we don't have one world government we have two hundred countries in the world and every country has a right to set their own tax rates and decide what their own tax policy is and

that's why we have tax competition that is why companies can excuse tax burdens quite taking advantage of the fact there are countries that have low tax burdens and that's why also individuals can take advantage of tax competition which is actually very beneficial because tax competition is what keeps tax rates down. in in one nine hundred eighty. our tax rates are almost double what they are today and the reason they have dropped so much worldwide is because of tax competition. i just think you've got you just now let the free market just thinking about america for instance the private health care system that you can't really say that's working very well can you or do you think it's a paragon of success. oh no i think the us health care system is horrible that's because of government intervention the health care system in singapore is is

a much better system if there is very little government attention in singapore it's almost a free market in health care and as a result the quality is very high and the prices are very low which is why i remember we americans report they get better care for one third the parents or i know we've only got a minute is a couple more things i want to ask you we've all seen the public anger at large companies avoiding paying taxes such as the recent protests against starbucks in the u.k. as the peg for all this those people who have a bigger tax burden of course because big firms can employ accountants to get clever with profits where does social responsibility cake in then. i think every individual has a moral. who are quite as much tax as possible to avoid it yes because if you can if you can avoid tax which means you can you can lower your tax burden legally and decide not to you paying more tax in europe and then you're obliged to under the law and the government uses the tax money for bad things that uses it to to buy

a whole army of the bureaucrats who write billions of new rules and create a lot of damage when you pay too much tax you're corresponds with your morally correspond civil for the damage that government does so i think that every person has a moral obligation to pay as little carrots as pass one of them are to our know that a lot of people agree with you a lot of people to my prospects for making your thoughts so clear and concise on the program tonight talk about is a space firm specializing in tax avoidance. and focusing on. the leading rights activists this staying behind bars have been talking. well the latest is he's got his three year sentence for juiced on appeal despite international pressure of the monarchy to stop persecuting political activist as we hear later that he was hoping to be released however also the midwest and concerns of the syrian government could use chemical weapons that are growing fears the stockpile could actually get into extremist sounds a worrying prospect for

a lot of people we talk about that too right up after this break. an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal

possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt s m a t actually in the end it got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. admission of free accreditation free in-store charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media dog r t v dot com. you know how sometimes you see

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more news today in harlem says once again fled up the film these are the images go bald have been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are the day. reports like claiming syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front of seize control of an army base in the country's north it's left thirty five soldiers dead the u.s. backs the opposition movement but is placed the militant group on a terrorist list and has paulus leader explains now there are increasing fears that syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands so the images coming up in this report are a very graphic nature. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting

a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might themselves provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as has been in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be read from the line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the shift reaction and the immediate involvement of

the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can be verified what we do know is that so you're has one of the world's largest chemical weapon arsenals so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extended to the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage of the exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and you need to hand them off they certainly is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing

the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as limbs and incredible woos to their bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a third rate against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as share means while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child they had a number of prisoners now according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of the headed victims we see the child actually beheading this person but

again no way of indicating or verifying exactly the crew of this although some sources say that they were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate policy or a middle east correspondent there with u.s. sources say washington's training rebels to secure and handle chemical stockpiles if the syrian government should fall but it commentators like antiwar activists can stone believe is just another step towards intervention. this period right now and the talk of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons in syria is very reminiscent of the run up to the anglo-american attack on iraq in two thousand and three one of those videos purported to show syrian insurgents funded by the west preparing chemical weapons which we use on rabbits but could be used on syrian

civilians and then blamed on the syrian government the assad government is not suicidal it has been playing its cards very carefully and there is no basis in fact . for the use use of chemical weapons by the syrian government that would be counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction argument used so effectively in two thousand and three and later found out to be a complete hoax they've just they've tried it out of the dustbin and their plan to rerun it again. check out a few stories on line few from our spark web site but these are the ones of course why i think you'd like them to droning on america reveals a feed touristic new weapon in the fight against terror a manufacturer now unveiling the next generation of our manned drones fitted with a so-called death ray laser scary so that they say that means of never one and ammunition with my drill receiving and after also what i website to the real cost of education in the u.k.

thing going up and up skyrocketing prices for higher education may soon now rise to one hundred thousand pounds. there's been further violence in northern ireland the group of suspected loyalists of petrol bomb the police car with a female officer inside the attacks being treated as attempted murder there's been more than a week of armrest following a decision to restrict the number of days that the union flag can fly from belfast city hall let's talk about this with jason walsh he's the other correspondent for the christian science monitor is surely someone line now either jason good to see you after more than a decade of supposed peace we now see something i would see as simple as a flag something like a flag sparking up this amount of violence was there ever a real peace in the first place where there was certainly violence and the vast majority of the killings are really come to an end since the ceasefire emerging ninety six and subsequent peace agreements in the 1930's for the search or intelligence continue on the ground and this isn't the first sort of road in which

in this year there were two groups and in the summer in the north the first as well but this violence was sparked by you need to the u.k. just bring the viewers up to date up to speed of the didn't know is there a fear among them that the decision to remove the flag means northern ireland's being put on a path towards some kind of separation well that's exactly where the fear is just the photos is another question. floated will be flown or only it seemed to twenty students in zero three hundred. sixty five so that just brings it into line with other government buildings bush loyalists clearly feel that they're losing out in the peace process even if that analysis is difficult to sustain and you have a situation were any sort of attempt to. deemphasize british culture is taken very very personally very seriously by loyalists to anything the timing of this in the stories aren't connected at all but of course we're also watching very closely even reporting on it here on this channel as well scotland getting to choose if

it's going to go it alone maybe some point in the future is there any cost and i don't think it's a directly related but certainly if scotland were true you know achieve independence that would definitely create problems for unionism although unionist denied this and said it will continue on in you know the kingdom of england wheels in northern ireland although of course you can see where the breaking up you go would make us more problematic proposition. now if the middle ground alliance party which approved the flag to sit in the first place changes its mind when that stoke up republican anger then that the opposite side of it generated violence on the other side you know that seems unlikely certainly when you see unionist or loyalist terror groups don't have any serious political representation the majority of republican sentiment remains with cindy sheehan and the disarm direction sheehan is fairly well represented in government northern ireland there are dissident republican groups who would seek to stir up trouble but at the moment. they have

some operational capacity but very little in the way of actual support is going to be a solution at a place all sides you think of a short term. you know. quick out of northern ireland took decades and millions of pounds to bring it to some sort of piecemeal witness those pictures those of us i can remember what are the chances that the u.k. is going to get dragged back into that kind of death and again well you could already spending. was in northern ireland really is as i have the figures here in tuxes it raises eleven billion and put it spends twenty billions of britain's a really spending one. the importance for your own little going to supplant you so it's already a costly year. for the british taxpayer. thanks ever so much pain with this much appreciated there jason walsh the r. and correspondent for the christian science monitor on the line from dublin thank you. now international calls have failed to get bahrain's leading human rights activists out of jail but an appeal sees the. sentence reduced as the almost two

years of anti government protests rolls on in the gulf kingdom we speak about that so also after the break to the story of american woman who was also to be sterilized as a teenager is part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation those stories in fact in fifteen minutes. but what was said break it's more than a break as the business bulletin is next c.i. katie big stories. being very kind to the shareholders they must be brazen a glass or two of champagne tonight yeah absolutely ten billion dollars is what they're proposing to dish out in the next three years but the question is kevin so the company's the company's doing well not particularly no and that's why i browse are being raised as to if they can afford these dividends and that's what i'm going to be analyzing in the business but us and after the break look.